清代戲曲≪雲石會≫中人物原型考論

Abstract

Yunshihui(雲石會) is a unique traditional opera written by the opera writer Bao Xie(包燮) who lived from Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty. This opera is included in Guben Xiqu Congkan(古本戲曲叢刊) No.5 which is edited by Zheng Zhenduo(鄭振鐸) and Wu Xiaoling(吳曉玲). Under its influence of the operas about the moralistic dram (神仙度脫劇) of Ming and Qing dynasties, there are also many fairy characters coming on stages, besides these, there are also many miraculous events happened in the opera. But what is enjoyable is that besides these fairy characters, there are also many real characters who actually existed in the history, such as Du Yan(杜言), the dumb blonde(啞女), Qiao Yinfu(喬因阜), Mi Yuanzhang(米元章) and so on. In this paper we did a research on the prototype of these characters and by doing the research we also did a investigation and analysis on the writer’s ability on how to deal with the relationship between the real characters. The real historical events and the virtual creation. But until recently, the scholars paid not enough attentions on the traditional opera Yunshihui(雲石会). We can just find that the details of the author of Yunshihui(雲石会)―Bao Xie’s(包燮) life is mentioned in the Mingqing Xiqujia Kaolüe(明清戏曲家考略) by Deng Changfeng(邓长风). The study on Yunshihui(云石会) can help us to understand the whole feature of the traditional opera creation of Qing dynasty.